Of the fourteen schools in this directory, Garden International is the only one carrying full Council of International Schools accreditation. That's not a marketing badge. CIS is a five-year cycle of external review covering governance, learning outcomes, student welfare, child protection, finance, and facilities — schools have to actually pass it, and they can lose it if they slip. It's the single most rigorous quality mark an international school in this region can carry, and Garden Rayong is the only one in Pattaya, Banglamung, Sattahip, Sriracha, or Rayong that has it.
Garden runs the IB Diploma Programme at Sixth Form and has reported a Published 100% Diploma pass rate in 2023 (Garden Rayong examination-results page).. IB pass rates internationally hover in the 78–82% range, so 100% in 2023 (per published results) indicates a school that's either selective at entry or supports rigorously through the two-year programme (or both). The trade-off versus Regents Pattaya at Sixth Form is that Garden runs only the IB Diploma — there's no A-Level alternative.
Garden is one of the founding member schools of the Federation of British International Schools in Asia. FOBISIA is the regional sports, debate, and Model UN circuit. Founding-member status means Garden students travel for inter-school competitions across Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, Vietnam, and Indonesia in a way that students at non-FOBISIA schools simply don't.
Ban Chang is a Rayong-province sub-district about 30 minutes south of central Pattaya, immediately east of U-Tapao airport. For Pattaya families, this is a real commute — daily school bus, not walkable. Garden publishes bus fees of ฿18,000–฿32,100 per term depending on zone (roughly ฿55K–฿95K per year per child).
Garden publishes fees per term, not per year. There are three terms in a standard school year (Foundation through Year 10), but Year 11 IGCSE and Years 12–13 IBDP run only two terms because exam sessions cut the academic year short. So when you compare Garden's headline numbers to Rugby's or Regents's per-year figures, multiply Garden's term fees by three for normal years and use the published two-term totals for exam years.
Regents has Sixth Form optionality (IB and A-Level), the Nord Anglia global network, and is geographically closer to Pattaya. Garden has CIS accreditation, a stronger published IBDP track record, and FOBISIA founding-member status. If your child is locked-in IB and external academic credentials matter most, Garden edges Regents. If you want curriculum flexibility at 16 or you'll move countries during the school years, Regents edges Garden.
Rugby is more expensive (฿975K top-end vs Garden's ~฿500K equivalents), has boarding from age 10, runs A-Levels only at Sixth Form, and has the strongest published facility list. Garden is roughly half the per-year cost at peer year-groups, day-only, and IBDP-only. For an IB-pathway family on a tighter premium-tier budget, Garden is the substantially cheaper academic pick.
Sourced from gardenrayong.com/admissions/fees. Garden invoices per term, three terms per standard year, two terms for Y11 IGCSE and Y12–13 IBDP exam years.
| Year group | Age | Per term | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Years | |||
| Nursery — half-day | 2–3 | ฿49,000 | ฿147,000 |
| Nursery — full-day | 2–3 | ฿89,500 | ฿268,500 |
| Foundation Stage 1 half-day | 3–4 | ฿109,100 | ฿327,300 |
| Foundation Stage 1 full-day | 3–4 | ฿128,600 | ฿385,800 |
| Foundation Stage 2 | 4–5 | ฿128,600 | ฿385,800 |
| Primary + Secondary | |||
| Years 1–2 | 5–7 | ฿139,500 | ฿418,500 |
| Years 3–6 | 7–11 | ฿149,100 | ฿447,300 |
| Years 7–9 | 11–14 | ฿165,600 | ฿496,800 |
| Year 10 | 14–15 | ฿166,700 | ฿500,100 |
| Sixth Form (2-term exam years) | |||
| Year 11 (IGCSE) · 2-term total | 15–16 | ฿247,700 total | |
| Years 12–13 (IBDP) · 2-term total | 16–18 | ฿304,900 total | |
| One-time + extras | |||
| Application fee (non-refundable) | — | ฿5,000 | |
| Enrolment · Foundation Stage | — | ฿60,000 | |
| Enrolment · Primary + Secondary | — | ฿120,000 | |
| Tuition deposit (refundable) | — | ฿40,000 | |
| School bus (per term, by zone) | — | ฿18,000–฿32,100 | |
| First-year all-in · Year 1 day student | 5–6 | ~ ฿590,500 | |
| Y12 IBDP year 1 · day student (new) | 16–17 | ~ ฿469,900 | |
"First-year Year 1 all-in" ≈ ฿418,500 tuition + ฿120,000 enrolment + ฿5,000 application + ฿40,000 refundable deposit + ฿7,000 one-term mid-zone bus ≈ ฿590,500. Doesn't include uniform, lunch, exam fees, residential trips. Sibling discount not published on the school's public fee page — verify with admissions if multiple children.
If you're an IB-pathway family and you want a school whose academic quality has been independently audited by an external body — Garden is the academic pick on the Eastern Seaboard. The CIS five-year audit cycle gives you something every other school here either doesn't have or doesn't publish; the FOBISIA founding membership gives your child a real regional sports + debate circuit; the 100% IBDP track record is comparable to any Bangkok premium. The right family has a child who'll thrive in a structured IB programme, is comfortable above ฿500K/yr at Sixth Form, and either lives in Rayong / Ban Chang or is fine with the 30-minute daily bus from Pattaya.
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